Parsing BUFR files

[SB-511]

Hello,

just wanted to ask if I can parse BUFR files from the DWD Opendata server with this library, since I did not find any explicit documentation about this.

[jdemaeyer]

Hi @SB-511, dwdparse currently has no support for BUFR parsing as that is not needed for Bright Sky right now. However, it is also not out-of-scope for this package, so I'd be happy to accept a patch :)

[deraffe]

Looks like it might be needed after all.

• Fix SYNOP parsing (and consequentially /current_weather) brightsky#175 (comment)

[deraffe]

Parsing BUFR files looks slightly daunting to me (mostly because it's a format from the 80s with documentation seemingly written for prior users of SYNOP and METAR). I'm wondering if keeping dwdparse dependency-less is an important enough goal not to include one of the battle-tested libraries out there that will parse these files.

In any case, DWD's BUFR viewer is helpful in debugging.